Name
Abstract | ||
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What EDI needs is a good semantics, that is, a workable formal theory of what EDI messages mean. As is widely recognized, the point applies to electronic commerce and to communications by artificial agents in general. Some progress has been made in this direction, but very much work remains to be done. In this paper we introduce and discuss the spanning hypothesis for agent (or, e.g., EDI or electronic commerce) communication languages. The spanning hypothesis is a claim about the semantics for a given communication language, and we think it represents a necessary condition for truly successful artificial communication in electronic commerce. After discussing and clarifying the hypothesis, and how it might be confirmed, we present evidence in its favor from an analysis of EDIFACT transaction sets. |
Year | Venue | Keywords |
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1999 | HICSS | present evidence,edifact transaction set,good semantics,communication language,spanning hypothesis,edi semantics,necessary condition,electronic commerce,successful artificial communication,edi need,edi message,artificial agent,electronic data interchange,computational linguistics |
Field | DocType | ISBN |
EDIFACT,World Wide Web,Theory,Electronic data interchange,Computer science,As is,Computational linguistics,Database transaction,Semantics | Conference | 0-7695-0001-3 |
Citations | PageRank | References |
2 | 0.47 | 10 |
Authors | ||
2 | ||
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steven O. Kimbrough | 1 | 600 | 103.93 |
| Scott A. Moore | 2 | 175 | 40.40 |